Connecticut western news., 1887-04-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.
 The Boston Executive Business Associa tlon will petition the Interstate Commission to allow the same rates to Boston as to New York.
 Ground has been broken for a monster summer garden and theatre in Philadelphia. | Twenty three business houses were burned | at Columbus Junction, Ind. Loss, $45, ,OOO. | Philadelphia reports great building boom under way. It has 18O, 900 buildings or one to every five inhabitants. | . The Lowrey- White Congressional contest in the Fort Wayne, Ind, district has ended | virtually in favor of White.
 Ward McLain, son of T. J. McLain, Con- Iul at Nassau, is under arrest at Cincinnati charged with fraud and grand larceny. | The coroner's jury has exonerated George Peters, who shot P. H. Griswod at Amherst, N. Y., under the impression that he was a burglar.
 | An anti-gambling bill which had passed both branches of the Delaware Legislature and awaited the Speakers sigma ure, has been | stolen.
 l Gen. Ruger states that the reports that settlers at the Winnebago and Crow Creek h. dian agencies would be shot unless they leave are pure bosh.
 | -AleXduuer M1tCHell, the famous North western millionaire, died rather suddenly at the Hoffman House, New York.
 The Saturday Half Holiday bill was passed by the New York Assembly.
 A cyclone killed several people and in- jured many in Nansemond county, Va.
 Many Maine saloon keepers openly disre- gard the new liquor law
 Four additional arrests have been made in | connection with the South Carolina railroad | I,0hh H1o haff have hooy ~, since November, and $5,0OO worth of goods have been stolen. No railroad men are in- volved
 -Joreph Shamo, Lebanon, Pa, widower of 70, and Miss Mary Messenger, aged 67, have surprised their friends by running away to New Jersey and getting married.
 The Duchess D'Auxy was a witness in a New York court in suit begun by herself to determine the validity of her title to property which she says her father gave her as a we'd ding gift.
 -Anti-coercion meetings were held at Tor onto, Ont, and Wilmington, Del.
 The police of South Bend, Ind, had a desperate fight with a body of burglarious tramps, in which they captured eleven and killed one.
 Three hundred railroad laborers indulged in a drunken free fight at Macon,s Mo-, 1T which several were wounded. | Evidences of submarine eruption exist along the California coast in the form of dea6 fishes and extraordinary vegetable growth iron the oceans bottom.
 The town of Martins Ferry, O., was de molished by cyclone, and the Mayor appeals for assistance.
 Two young farmers, working near Phelps N. Y., were killed by lightning.
 The resignation of Thomas J. Nealis a engineer of the New York public school build ings has caused a sensation, because he say he WIS forced to resign by corrupt influences
 A depositor who thought that four bars weighing 2,O0O ounces, which he had purchased were of pure gold, was informed by the Nev York Assay Office that they were of tin, cop per zinc and lead, and had no gold in them.
 A servant girl was murdered in broad day l light in fashionable residence at Louisville Ky.
 Major John E. Blaine, paymaster (brothe of ex-Sccretary Blaine), died ut Hot Springs Ark He was appointed to the position h held March 3, 1875, having previously resigne an office in the Quartermasters department.
 Three men killed, two fatally injured an two still missing are the results of an acciden on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Lou Railroad near Taswell, Ind.
 Mrs. Patterson, the Philadelphia ''spirit doctor, was found guilty of practicing medi cine contrary to law.
 MT. James Russell Lowell has sailed fc Europe.
 Capt. F. M. Ramsey has been ordered command the new cruiser Boston.
 The Grand Army of the Republic of low sent cablegram to MT. Gladstone approvin his efforts in behalf of Ireland.
 An underground gambling den, frequen ed only by boys in Indianapolis, was raide and forty lads were caught playing poker. l At Brady, Mich, Clark Harrison, a farme remonstrated with James Mcguire for abusin his (Maguires) wife. Hot words followe } and the men exchanged shots Thinking l had killed Mcguire, Harrison returned hom took morphine, and expired.